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Authors’ blog hop – The Next Big Thing

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Thanks to Cindi Madsen for inviting me to join this blog hop. Her books are amazing. Check ’em out HERE!

Now, down to business….

ALL ABOUT ABBY ROAD:

Where did the idea come from for the book? I wanted to know what it would feel like to be a famous pop star, so I decided to write about it. 🙂

What genre does your book fall under?
ABBY ROAD is women’s fiction but can also fall under the contemporary romance genre because of all the kissing.
 
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition? Okay, so this is really going to date when I started writing this book, but Mandy Moore (circa 2002) has always been my Abby. She has that all-American, fresh-faced, spunky look. (Mandy was the Neutrogena spokesperson at the time, after all!)


For Todd, I’ve never found a Hollywood actor that could do the amazing hunk that he is any justice. When I first started writing the story, I came across the picture of a Brazilian model and I knew immediately that he was my Todd. I haven’t been able to find him again, but luckily I saved a few pictures. Here’s one:

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book? A woman runs away to the ocean.
 
What is the longer synopsis of your book? Abigail Kelly tries to escape her personal demons and the heat of being under the celebrity spotlight by taking an extended vacation to the secluded beaches of Florida. There, she meets a hunky surf shop owner. Sparks fly!
 
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? All of my books (PLAYING AT LOVE, SPEAKING OF LOVE and ABBY ROAD) have been released through Entangled Publishing. I am very happy there and have an amazing editor. 

How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript? I wrote the first draft of ABBY ROAD in about three months. That was ten years ago. Since then, it’s gone through approximately ten thousand rewrites. I’ve worked on a dozen other projects since then, but I always felt like “Abby” was something special and I’m so glad she’s finally about to be released into the world!
 
Who or What inspired you to write this book? I love music and have always had a mild fascination with music celebs. Also, American Idol was just getting popular at the time. The idea of overnight success intrigued me.
 
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest? If you love the Beatles, you’ll be in for a fun surprise!


Next Wednesday, check out another author’s blog and find out about their Next Big Thing!

Authors’ blog hop – The Next Big Thing

Leave a comment

Thanks to Cindi Madsen for inviting me to join this blog hop. Her books are amazing. Check ’em out HERE!

Now, down to business….

ALL ABOUT ABBY ROAD:

Where did the idea come from for the book? I wanted to know what it would feel like to be a famous pop star, so I decided to write about it. 🙂

What genre does your book fall under?
ABBY ROAD is women’s fiction but can also fall under the contemporary romance genre because of all the kissing.
 
Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition? Okay, so this is really going to date when I started writing this book, but Mandy Moore (circa 2002) has always been my Abby. She has that all-American, fresh-faced, spunky look. (Mandy was the Neutrogena spokesperson at the time, after all!)


For Todd, I’ve never found a Hollywood actor that could do the amazing hunk that he is any justice. When I first started writing the story, I came across the picture of a Brazilian model and I knew immediately that he was my Todd. I haven’t been able to find him again, but luckily I saved a few pictures. Here’s one:

What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book? A woman runs away to the ocean.
 
What is the longer synopsis of your book? Abigail Kelly tries to escape her personal demons and the heat of being under the celebrity spotlight by taking an extended vacation to the secluded beaches of Florida. There, she meets a hunky surf shop owner. Sparks fly!
 
Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency? All of my books (PLAYING AT LOVE, SPEAKING OF LOVE and ABBY ROAD) have been released through Entangled Publishing. I am very happy there and have an amazing editor. 

How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript? I wrote the first draft of ABBY ROAD in about three months. That was ten years ago. Since then, it’s gone through approximately ten thousand rewrites. I’ve worked on a dozen other projects since then, but I always felt like “Abby” was something special and I’m so glad she’s finally about to be released into the world!
 
Who or What inspired you to write this book? I love music and have always had a mild fascination with music celebs. Also, American Idol was just getting popular at the time. The idea of overnight success intrigued me.
 
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest? If you love the Beatles, you’ll be in for a fun surprise!


Next Wednesday, check out another author’s blog and find out about their Next Big Thing!

Entangled in Love – Blog Hop

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 How can you not be so full of LOVE this time of year? When I feel love, I want to give away stuff!

For this occasion, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share SUGAR RUSH, the sexy and SWEET e-romance from my fellow Entangled sister, Rachel Astor. You’ll be reaching for that box of chocolates (and your man!) in no time!


Dulcie Carter has been running her family’s homemade sweet shop, Candy Land Confections, on her own since her mom passed away. But business is slow and rent is high, so Dulcie knows if she wants to keep her mom’s dream alive, she’ll need a miracle. The annual Assembly of Chocolatiers competition might be just the thing, if she can bring herself to try creating something new for the first time in a long time.

Then she meets Nick, a molten-hot guy with a sexy smirk and an attraction stronger than any sugar rush, whose family also happens to own the big-box candy shop in town—her strongest competition for first prize. Nick’s got his own reasons for needing the win, but then being around Dulcie is proving addictive.

As their competition heats up, so do the sparks between them. Can they keep their sights on winning, when love might be the sweetest prize of all?

ENTER HERE:

 a Rafflecopter giveaway

 AND….since I’m so full of love, and feel like celebrating Monday’s release of SPEAKING OF LOVE (the second book in my Perfect Kisses blissful e-series), I’m also throwing in an digital copy of book one PLAYING AT LOVE. Yippee!! 

Click HERE to check out what the other authors are giving away during the Entangled In Love blog hop! 

 
We also have a Twitter Party with more fun and prizes!


Date : February 8th, 2013
Time : 9pm EST
Hashtag : #EntangledInLove
What : We’ll be asking Valentine’s day related questions and each question has prizes to be won! Answer right for a chance to win some of the many awesome prizes
Where : Follow the instructions below
1. Go to http://tweetgrid.com/party 
 2. Fill in the hash-tag as #EntangledInLove 
3. Fill in the hosts
@entangledpub 
@totalbookaholic 
 @babsbookbistro
 @anjanavasan 
4. Enter your twitter handle, follow the tweets, answer the questions and you may just get lucky
Don’t forget to mention the #EntangledInLove hashtag in your replies!

Entangled in Love – Blog Hop

10 Comments

 How can you not be so full of LOVE this time of year? When I feel love, I want to give away stuff!

For this occasion, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share SUGAR RUSH, the sexy and SWEET e-romance from my fellow Entangled sister, Rachel Astor. You’ll be reaching for that box of chocolates (and your man!) in no time!


Dulcie Carter has been running her family’s homemade sweet shop, Candy Land Confections, on her own since her mom passed away. But business is slow and rent is high, so Dulcie knows if she wants to keep her mom’s dream alive, she’ll need a miracle. The annual Assembly of Chocolatiers competition might be just the thing, if she can bring herself to try creating something new for the first time in a long time.

Then she meets Nick, a molten-hot guy with a sexy smirk and an attraction stronger than any sugar rush, whose family also happens to own the big-box candy shop in town—her strongest competition for first prize. Nick’s got his own reasons for needing the win, but then being around Dulcie is proving addictive.

As their competition heats up, so do the sparks between them. Can they keep their sights on winning, when love might be the sweetest prize of all?

ENTER HERE:

 a Rafflecopter giveaway

 AND….since I’m so full of love, and feel like celebrating Monday’s release of SPEAKING OF LOVE (the second book in my Perfect Kisses blissful e-series), I’m also throwing in an digital copy of book one PLAYING AT LOVE. Yippee!! 

Click HERE to check out what the other authors are giving away during the Entangled In Love blog hop! 

 
We also have a Twitter Party with more fun and prizes!


Date : February 8th, 2013
Time : 9pm EST
Hashtag : #EntangledInLove
What : We’ll be asking Valentine’s day related questions and each question has prizes to be won! Answer right for a chance to win some of the many awesome prizes
Where : Follow the instructions below
1. Go to http://tweetgrid.com/party 
 2. Fill in the hash-tag as #EntangledInLove 
3. Fill in the hosts
@entangledpub 
@totalbookaholic 
 @babsbookbistro
 @anjanavasan 
4. Enter your twitter handle, follow the tweets, answer the questions and you may just get lucky
Don’t forget to mention the #EntangledInLove hashtag in your replies!

Romance is in the Air – blog hop giveaway

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Welcome to this pretty blog hop!
My giveaway is a digital copy of the recently released GREAT AND THE GOBLIN KING by the fantabulous Chloe Jacobs. This gem has been on my to-read list for months, so my winner and I just might be reading it at the same time! 
 
While trying to save her brother from a witch’s fire four years ago, Greta was thrown in herself, falling through a portal to Mylena, a dangerous world where humans are the enemy and every ogre, ghoul, and goblin has a dark side that comes out with the eclipse.

To survive, Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young goblin king, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her will to escape.

But Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. An ancient evil knows she’s the key to opening the portal, and with the next eclipse mere days away, every bloodthirsty creature in the realm is after her—including Isaac. If Greta fails, she and the lost boys of Mylena will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back…

AND….since I feel like celebrating Monday’s release of SPEAKING OF LOVE (the second book in my Perfect Kisses blissful e-series), I’m also throwing in an digital copy of book one PLAYING AT LOVE. Hooray! 
 
This is how you enter to win all the stuff….. a Rafflecopter giveaway


 

Hop away!

Romance is in the Air – blog hop giveaway

17 Comments
Welcome to this pretty blog hop!
My giveaway is a digital copy of the recently released GREAT AND THE GOBLIN KING by the fantabulous Chloe Jacobs. This gem has been on my to-read list for months, so my winner and I just might be reading it at the same time! 
 
While trying to save her brother from a witch’s fire four years ago, Greta was thrown in herself, falling through a portal to Mylena, a dangerous world where humans are the enemy and every ogre, ghoul, and goblin has a dark side that comes out with the eclipse.

To survive, Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she’s good at what she does. So good, she’s caught the attention of Mylena’s young goblin king, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her will to escape.

But Greta’s not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. An ancient evil knows she’s the key to opening the portal, and with the next eclipse mere days away, every bloodthirsty creature in the realm is after her—including Isaac. If Greta fails, she and the lost boys of Mylena will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back…

AND….since I feel like celebrating Monday’s release of SPEAKING OF LOVE (the second book in my Perfect Kisses blissful e-series), I’m also throwing in an digital copy of book one PLAYING AT LOVE. Hooray! 
 
This is how you enter to win all the stuff….. a Rafflecopter giveaway


 

Hop away!